GeForce GTX 260 and Xbox 360 GPU - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 260

Xbox 360 GPU

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

TeraScale (2005−2013)

GPU code name

GT200

Xenos

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

June 2008

November 2005

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

-

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

576 MHz

500 MHz

CUDA cores

192

-

Floating-point performance

476.9 gflops

240 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

232 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

240

Power consumption (TDP)

182 Watt

-

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

36.9 billion/sec

8.000

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

896 MB

512 MB

Memory bus width

448 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

999 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

111.9 GB/s

22.4 GB/s

Display Connectors

Dual Link DVIHDTV

No outputs

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

-

OpenGL

2.1

N/A

Shader Model

4.0

-

Vulkan

N/A

-